Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-02-12
4U4INE LEGISL4TURE.
SENATE.
FRIDAY. Feb II

Pspers from the House disposed of il
concurrence.
communication was received from tn,
Secretary of State, transmitting the report o.
the Auditor of the accounts OF G ". Robie
Treasurer for the Committee of the G. A. Il
Reunion at Portland. Also. transmitting. in
response 10 an inquiry Of the legislature, the
information that st this date there are nc
such officers as moose wardens in commits
sion, there fore no returns from such officers
have been received or expected at this office
The law touching the appointment of moose
wsrdens, and the duties of such wardens, has
for many wears been imperative.
The Senate order for special committee
to investigate the cause of the outbreak of
disease among the cattle at the State College
Farm, etc, came back from the House
amended BY substituting the Committee on
Agriculture for the special committee pro-
posed bv the order
MIR. Heath of Kennebec said there was no
intention OF encroaching upon the duties OF
the Committee on Agr!culture. He desired
only 10 take such course As would best ia
cilitate the Investigation. and il appeared to
him that smaller committee could sooner
accomplish the purpose of the order than q
larger one. He was sustained in this
opinion hy the members Of the Committee
on Agriculture On tue part OF tIt NtuAlS
lie regarded the action Of the House as an
tagonisuc TO an invrstig ttion. The order
was not aimed at the college of agriculture
or any member of the board of agriculture,
but at the disease among the cattle, ami he
| believed the people should be allowed To
! know the truth.
He moved TO insist and ssk Committee
of conference and the Senate sustained the
motion The President appointed as the
committee on the part of the Senate. Messrs.
Heath. Rich and Allen.
| MIR. Alien presented resolve in favor OF the
| joint standing committee on State Prison,
which was passed to be engrossed under a
su pension of the rule.
| Mr.. G ,odnow from the Committee on the
Judiciary. reported ought not to pass on bill
an act relating to protests of bills and notes,
and bill an act to provide for allowance to
| widows and minor children from the estates
Of deceased persons.
Mr.. Lumbert from the Committee On the
Judiciary, reported ought to pass on bill an
act to amend sec chap. 90 of the revised
statutes; printed under rule
Mr.. Simpson from the Committee on
Interior Waters, on petit n, reported bill
an act to provide for the navigation of Ken
ne bee river between Norridgewock Falls and
Carratunk Falls; read and assigned
| Mr.. Wescott from the Committee OF Rail
roads, Telegraphs and Expresses. reported
ought to pass on bill an act providing for a
union railway station at Portland; read and
passed 10 be engrossed under suspension
of the rule.
Mr.. Lbbey from the Comm;ttee on Finan-
| cisl Affairs to whom was referred a commu
Dcation OF the St cretary Of the State relating
to timber and grass lands, reported resolve
! I % yalu.tinu n Ihp timber and
grass on reserved lands in the State; printed
| nder rule.
= On motion of Mr. Wescott of Cumberland
bill an act to abolish school districts, spec
iallv assigned for ta-dsv, was taken from the
table and assigned for Wednesday next.
On motion of Mr. Gilbert of Oxford. bin
an act TO incorporate the Golden Rule Relief
Association was taken from the table and re-
ferred to the Committee on Mercantile Affairs
and Iosurance.
On motion Of Mr. G )odnow of Washington,
the mai ,rity and minority reports of the
I Committee on Wavs and Bridges in the mat
ter of Pfides and Stroudsater bridges were
taken from the table, and on motion of Mr.
| Wescott of Cumberland the reports were laid
on the table and assigned Tor Wednesday next
at Il o'clock.
| Bill an act to Incorporate the Bangor Street
Railway Co. came from the House engrossed
| aud on motion of Mr. Lord of Penobscot the
rule was suspended AMI the bill passed to be
engrossed in concurrence.
| Resolve in favor of Fort Kent, on its
passage to be engrossed, was amended
on motion of Mr. Libbey Of Peuobscot so
as to take the amount from the school fund
of the current year The resolve was then
passed to be engrossed.
On motion uf Mr. Wallace of Washington
the report of the G mmittee on Federal Re-
iations in the matter Of our trade relations
! with the Canadian Provinces, was taken
/ from the table and accf pred.
| The resolutions were then read.
! Mr. Wallace said:
/ Mr. resdeut-In submitting this report
! ask the indulgence of the Senate but for a
/ shor, season | have but few words to say
/ for the statement of Facts" therein con-
tanned carries with it its own convictions.
/ No argument is necessary, for it goes with
out SAYING that the line Of policy pursued by
/ the Canadian government in their treatment
Of our fishermen during the past year finds
no parallel in the modern history of the inter
course of friendly nations. The fact re-
mains also that this policy Of interdictiOn OF
trade has worked hardships upon the people
of the lover provinces by being debarred
from selling supplies and bait TO our fisher
! men. which are nearly II not 1nlIe equal 10
those suffered by our own The question
then arises Whv is this policy continuedf
WHY are al the laws of International com
itv and good neighborhood ignored and set
asid.?
The only solution appears to be that the
government at Ottawa have INDUCED the
hope that they might succeed ir
coprcing our people into a renewal of the
reciprocity treaty, so called, before their owr
people should revolt against their practices
am aware these resolutions appear to be
retaliatory am aware also. Mr.. President
that the law of retaliation is retrogrsde
But in offering these resolutions the subject
matter is resolved into the staple condition
OF c,untervsiling regulations, the system oi
which every nation has an inherent right t.
enter upon for the protection Of its industries
And We must take as stringent measures r
protect our fishing interests as our more
northern neighbOrs take to protect theirs
And unless we do this it requires not the Vif
of prophetic vision to determine the fact tina
in the near future this industry Of our people
this nursery of our merchant marine, and OF
our navy, will exist only in the memory Of
the past.
Asto whether in the future this ques
ton may or may not assume such gravity o
character as to involve the honor and integ
rlty of our government, seek not to Dene
trate the veil, but in the present, at least
there appears to be no good reason Why tht
matters in dispute could not be amicably ad